Although Arsenal are closing in on Europa League qualification, Emery feels there is an obvious area where his team can get better in the weeks to come.

"Each match there is a big opportunity to improve and one is this," Emery told a news conference. "We spoke about it before the match.

"When we were in the dressing room at half-time we spoke and said, 'okay today also, we cannot impose our game in first 45 minutes, but the second half we have the opportunity to change the result and continue in our way, thinking only of winning this match and improving things in the second half'.

"And I think the team did that in the second 45 minutes. But we need to continue finding the solution for the first half to be better.

"The match, for the 90 minutes, there were different things happening tactically and individually.

"The first half is not clear for us, there was not a lot of chances. The second half step by step we imposed our job, our play to win this match."